Material Planner & Buyer

Job Title 

 Material Planner & Buyer (keep fairly generic)

Location 

Jorc site in Heerlen, The Netherlands

About Us

JORC Industrial BV sells condensate management and energy-saving products within the compressed air industry worldwide. For more information about our product portfolio, please visit our website: www.jorc.eu.

Job Summary

The Material Planner & Buyer is responsible for supporting the supply plans, translating demand into creating orders to support production, including materials management of raw & pack, work-in-process.

Experience with packaging a plus. The role is tasked with building and maintaining strong relationships with operations/ planning, sales and service to manage stock levels, support the schedule and production with operational efficiencies in standard & pre-build business situations.

Responsibilities

• Order and maintain adequate material volume on-site in advance of production according to upcoming build schedule;
• Release purchase orders to support upcoming planned production, work-in-process and finished products inventory levels;
• Support and provide direction regarding material availability or limitations against inventory/production plans and develop action plans to address;
• Gather necessary resources to address action items and follow up on all material shortage-related issues;
• Communicates/elevates issues as needed to stakeholders. Actively interact with manufacturing, quality, warehousing & transportation to solve material issues & react to consumption patterns;
• Follow up on quality issues to drive resolution with supplier and internal team;
• Support the developing and implementing of commodity strategies within area of responsibility;
• Frequent data maintenance of parts, vendor, and quality documentation;
• Special projects and new project development as assigned;

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree and 3-5 years of supply chain experience. Similar or equivalent combination of education and experience will be considered;
• Supply and/or Demand planning experience strongly preferred;
• Work well under pressure with limited supervision, and able to make immediate value based decisions; 
• Able to independently identify, discuss, work out on paper and realize improvement opportunities;
• Command of the Dutch and English language in word and writing.

Travel & Work Arrangements/Requirements

• Fully site based

Key Competencies

• Good communication and social skills: strong in communicating at different levels and disciplines;
• Good analytical insight, pragmatic, organization sensitive and strong in process-oriented working, planning and organizing;
• Result-oriented;
• Be accurate / accuracy.

What we Offer

• When you join the company, you will receive internal technical training regarding JORC's products.
• JORC offers you a professional, international, dynamic working environment with an eye for quality, where personal development is stimulated and own initiatives are promoted.
• Each year, your new goals and development challenges are identified together with you, so that you can further develop your skills and competences.
• As an employee you will receive Shares options from Ingersoll Rand